Sometimes I feel like the only person I know who finds reading history fascinating. It’s so full of amazing-yet-true stories of people driven to the edge and how they reacted to it. I keep telling friends that a good history book (as opposed to some of those textbooks in school that are all lists and dates) does everything a good novel does–it grips you with real characters doing amazing things.
Am I REALLY the only person who feels this way? When is the last time you read a history book? Historical biography? You know, something that took place in the past but was REAL.
A good history book is really fun to read–I’ve enjoyed quite a few, most of them about the new first ladies of the USA and some about the Indian heroes of India. I don’t like to read them much, because sometimes it’s a bit too painful (but in a good way, I suppose.) It bothers me to see the struggles that such good people went through to bring about change for those around them, if not the whole world and yet, today–people are still fighting the change or constructing the same stumbling blocks for the new generation.
I think the last biography I read was Abraham Lincoln about two years ago and it was a wonderful read. I don’t quite remember who wrote it, because it was an old, fading hardcover that I’d bargained to get my hands on. Fun! ^_^
~Sara